Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio & TV). For the light heavyweight championship: Archie Moore v. Joey Maxim...
...captured her first title at 11, only four months after an attack of non-paralytic polio: the Eastern U.S. Ladies' Juvenile Figure Skating Championship. She went on to take the Triple Crown of World, North American, and U.S. titles...
According to Tenley, you can't get nervous before a Championship. Any tenseness would ruin your form. As to her feelings after a victory she says: "There were so many speeches and pictures after my World title it was three in the morning before I had time to feel happy...
...tennis for the moment." ¶ In Cincinnati, meeting at the N.C.A.A. convention, the unofficial Ivy League finally made it official. Beginning in 1956, the Ivies-Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale-will meet one another in football on a round-robin basis for a regular conference championship. ¶ In Melbourne, Australian Trackman John Landy, whose 4:02.1 mile is the third fastest on record, set an Australian two-mile mark of 8:58.2. ¶ In Rio de Janeiro, Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakia's triple Olympic winner, running over a soggy track, missed his 10,000-meter world...
Jack Barnaby's unbeaten varsity squash team moved two steps closer to a perfect season and another possible national championship over the weekend with overwhelming victories over Trinity and Wesleyan...